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That's hilarious the archaeologist's named is Michal Sip and he discovered a bowl What do you call it when people are named similarly to their profession?
by arthurcolle 5y ago
That's hilarious the archaeologist's named is Michal Sip and he discovered a bowl
What do you call it when people are named similarly to their profession?
- dwringer 5y agoPerhaps the concept of nominative determinism[0], or (more generally) the saying from Latin, "nomen est omen"[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nomen_est_omen https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nomen_est_omen
- mdp2021 5y ago"Nominative determinism" is when there are reasons to suppose that the profession was inspired by the name. 'Aptronym' is a term for the expression "name checks".
- ABraidotti 5y agoWhat's the opposite -- where someone has an unfortunate name for their industry? I know of a developer with the last name Null.
- joshuaissac 5y agoInaptronym: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym#Inaptronyms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym#Inaptronyms
- gimmeThaBeet 5y agoIt's called nominative determinism
- arthurcolle 5y agoThanks this is what I was looking for My last name is Colle so maybe I should start a glue company
- marton78 5y agoNo idea, but my zoology professor was called Prof. Elepfandt.
- arthurcolle 5y agoAndreas Elepfandt? That is amazing. What are his thoughts on elephants?
- mdp2021 5y ago'Aptronym'. Edit: it should actually be 'aptonym', I do not know where that 'r' came from.
- i1856511 5y agoThe library investigator's name is actually Bookman?
- lastofthemojito 5y agoPreviously on HN: Things Unexpectedly Named After People https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23888725 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23888725